OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to establish the value of hand elevation test as a reproducible provocative test for the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). METHODS We had a prospective study of 45 hands of 38 patients diagnosed with CTS between April 2005 and February 2009. The diagnosis of CTS was based on the American Academy of Neurology clinical diagnostic criteria. Experimenta...

The overall throughput of automatic test equipment (ATE) is sensitive to the download time of test data. An effective approach to the reduction of the download time is to compress test data before the download. A compression algorithm for test data should meet two requirements: lossless and simple decompression. In this paper, we propose a new test data compression method that aims to fully uti...

This chapter presents a new encoding scheme called alternating frequency-directed equal-run-length (AFDER) coding for test data compression. This encoding scheme together with nine-coded compression technique enhance the test data compression ratio. In the first stage, the pre-generated test cubes with unspecified bits are encoded using nine-coded compression scheme. Later, the proposed encodin...

ÐThe overall throughput of automatic test equipment (ATE) is affected by the download time of test data. An effective approach to the reduction of the download time is to compress test data before the download. A compression algorithm for test data should meet two requirements: lossless and simple decompression. In this paper, we propose a new test data compression method that aims to fully uti...

One of the prime challenges of testing a system-on-achip (SOC) is to reduce the required test data size. In this paper, we introduce a novel compression / decompression scheme based on geometric shapes that substantially reduces the amount of test data and reduces test time. The proposed scheme is based on ordering the test vectors in such a way that enables the generation of geometric shapes t...